Saudi Arabia .. What are you doing?

Saudi Arabia is going insane lately .. Saudi religious police stormed a house in the Saudi Arabian province of al-Jouf, detaining more than 41 guests for “plotting to celebrate Christmas,”

This is happening in the same week of arresting the Saudi novelist and political analyst Turki al-Hamad for criticizing Islam and the royal family in a series of tweets ...yup only tweets .. nothing more nothing less.

Not to forget that Raef Badawi is at risk of execution on apostasy charges. Badawi is co-founder and editor of the Liberal Saudi Network.He was charged with “insulting Islam through electronic channels” and “going beyond the realm of obedience.” then he was charged with "apostasy" which carries the penalty of death.

Its the middle ages all over again .. and what makes me really worried is that Egypt is following the same path.

Apparently we have nothing but to keep writing and exposing such practices to the media worldwide .. help in spreading the word about what's happening in here .. share the story with people you know on social media, talk about it with friends and family members if you can, write to your political representatives or to the Saudi ambassador himself.

It's a shame that such barbaric governments are supported by allegedly sectarian governments that claim to be supporting freedoms by all the means possible.

The entire area is being taken over by Islamic extremists, and I don't know where it will end. Russia had a highly repressive government until it ran out of money, but that's not likely to happen in the oil-rich Middle East. And for the people to rise up, risks death.

Which reminds me, Malala, the 15-year old Pakistani girl, who was shot in the head for insisting she attend school, is still recovering in London, but the petition that arose out of that horrible crime is still 112,000 signatures short of the million they're trying to collect, to present to the Pakistani President, to press him to insure Pakistani girls a right to an education.